Critics of the Bush administration seized on the finding to demand an end to any forcible effort to prevent the mullahocracy in Tehran from continuing to use its "peaceful" nuclear program as a cover for obtaining the bomb.

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But the same facilities that are used for peaceful enrichment can be used to enrich uranium for a bomb.

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But the same facilities that are used for peaceful enrichment can be used to enrich uranium for a bomb, and inspectors say they have not been able to fully gauge Iran's intentions.

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Ever since 1974, when India tested a supposedly peaceful nuclear device, it has had the technical wherewithal to build the bomb.

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Yet suspicions have mounted as Iran has invested in expensive technologies for enriching uranium and making plutonium (both possible bomb ingredients) before having a civilian nuclear-power industry that can make peaceful use of them.

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